The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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jeff7989 said:
What DE are you running, if it's Gnome then good luck swimming against current.
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Gnome is at the point on Debian that Wayland works very well. You just gotta use Wayland.
I have a bunch of hacks to make X11 work properly with UHD. You have to coerce a bunch of programs to work properly with various environment variables set. Almost all of that isn't necessary if you use Wayland. If you are using Gnome. There is now very few good reason not to use Wayland IMO, if you are using Gnome.

I actually like Gnome. I find it is pretty decent if you add the dash-to-dock and the ubuntu app indicators plugin. The biggest problem with Gnome is team though are run by complete lunatics and randomly remove, change shit e.g. I wanted to set a solid color as a desktop background, there is no way to do that in Gnome. They've change stuff in the interface so it fucks with your muscle memory.

That what I hate most about the Linux desktop. Each desktop environment has some massive short coming.
 
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Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
Buddy, if you don't have 5 different boot options in your CONFIG.SYS, I don't even know.
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See that's the beauty of Windows 98. I don't need it. I can adjust DOS settings per game, even just tickboxes for ex for EMS or mouse support, and give them their own config.sys & autoexec.bat in the properties dialog, and configure the system to reboot into MSDOS when double clicking a shortcut if needed.
 
Vhailor said:
I am interested in XLibre since I am not big fan of Wayland. Few programs worked better for me in X11 like Goldendict (dictionary app with pop-up feature not working in Wayland), SimpleScreenRecorder and Hearthstone Deck Tracker (although it is not as important). Is it safe to install it? Could I just switch things back without much problems?

My PC is quite old if it matters (Intel i5-4690, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti and 8GB RAM on HDD) running Fedora 43 with KDE.
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Works fine on pretty much any distro, feels the same as base X11 except no screen tearing due to tearfree being enabled by default. Drove it around a few days a couple weeks back, can confirm for sure it works flawlessly at least on XFCE and i3.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
How is your GPU working correctly? That vintage of nvidia driver doesn't work with a modern kernel IIRC. Nouveau?
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He's using a card before the GTX 10 series that required signed firmware for reclocking so nouveau should work pretty well.

SchizoDaemon said:
The biggest problem with Gnome is team though are run by complete lunatics and randomly remove, change shit e.g. I wanted to set a solid color as a desktop background, there is no way to do that in Gnome. They've change stuff in the interface so it fucks with your muscle memory.
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What's your usecase for existing features? https://discourse.gnome.org/t/please-add-log-out-even-when-there-is-only-one-user-account/34780

SchizoDaemon said:
I actually like Gnome.
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Imagine the chutzpah, the sheer friggin' audacity to say this and then call anyone -even gnome devs- lunatics.
 
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